Rebellion and Violence in Islamic La [Hardcover]

The first systematic treatment of political resistance and rebellion in Islamic law.Khaled Abou El Fadl writes the first systematic examination of political resistance and rebellion in Islamic law. Pre-modern jurists produced an extensive discourse on the legality of rebellion and the treatment due to rebels under Islamic law. The author examines the emergence and development of these discourses from the eighth to the fifteenth centuries, and demonstrates how these rulings have been reconstructed in the twentieth century. This is a book for scholars of Islamic law, and for those concerned with conflicts in the modern Islamic world.Khaled Abou El Fadl writes the first systematic examination of political resistance and rebellion in Islamic law. Pre-modern jurists produced an extensive discourse on the legality of rebellion and the treatment due to rebels under Islamic law. The author examines the emergence and development of these discourses from the eighth to the fifteenth centuries, and demonstrates how these rulings have been reconstructed in the twentieth century. This is a book for scholars of Islamic law, and for those concerned with conflicts in the modern Islamic world.Khaled Abou El Fadl's book represents the first systematic examination of the idea and treatment of political resistance and rebellion in Islamic law. Pre-modern jurists produced an extensive and sophisticated discourse on the legality of rebellion and the treatment due to rebels under Islamic law. The book examines the emergence and development of these discourses from the eighth to the fifteenth centuries, and considers juristic responses to the various terror-inducing strategies employed by rebels--including assassination, stealth attacks and rape. The study demonstrates how Muslim jurists went about restructuring several competing doctrinal sources in order to construct a highly technical discourse on rebellion. Indeed many of these rulings may have a profound influence on contempoary practilS(